Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-03-17
THE EAST.


chartered at Philadelphia on the 9TH. The
capital stock is s., 100000 of which ST, O00.-
600 is paid in by the incorporators as fol-
lows: Henry c.. Butcher, Philadelphia,
$l,000,OOO; William S. Harvey, Philadel-
phia, $500, 900; John Oliver, Columbia, S. c.,
, 100000; Frederick Oliver, Columbia,
S. c., $500, 100; DaSid A. Tompkins, Char
lotte, N. c., $500, 900; Alvin c. Newland,
Camden, N. j., $500.00O.
Mus. THERESA COIN, of New York has
assigned. Liabilities, S16S, 202; assets, S15,-
979.
SECRETARY MANNING has arranged to
make trip to Europe for the benefit of his
health.o He will be accompanied by his
wife and family and Treasurer Jordan.
A SUPPOSED internal machine, addressed
to the Prince of Wales, was recently under
investigation in the Dead Letter Office at
Washington.
SEVEN thousand seven hundred and six
teen applications for pensions have already
been filed BY Mexican veterans.
RANDALL, GLE q SHALLIEs, boot and
shoe dealers of Boston, have assigned with
$4,000 liabilities.
AZ a meeting of the stockholders of the
First National bank of Newburyport, Mass,
the other day, the capital of the bank was
reduced from $500, COZ to $3.50, 900, on account
of the limited demand for capital.
REV. HENRY WARD BEECHER died at
Brooklyn, N. Y, at $3.50 on the morning of
the Sth. He was attended by. most of his
near relatives and a few friends and passed
quietly away. He was unconscious to the
last.
THE saloonkeeVers and brewers of New
York city have come to an agreement, and
the pool beer fight is over.
THE police raided the booksellers in New
York the other night.
THE National Base Ball League met at
m no Sxyoc nor, I,
league would accept the terms offered by
indianapolis in preference TO the terms
offered by Kansas City, and that therefore
the latter would not be a member of the
league the coming season.
A FATAL panic occurred on the Third Ave
nue. elevated Railroad at New York on the
Sth- A train was stopped on account of a
IRE, when some of the passengers started
to walk to the nearest station along the
narrow platform. The train suddenly
STARTED, creating panic, causing the peo-
pie on the platform to jump and fall into
the street thirty feet below. The result
was four persons killed and six seriously
injured.
The Baltimore q Ohio railroad, it was al
legged, has been sold. The new owners are
represented by Alfred Sully, of New York.
1t was thought the Western Union Jay
Gould) had some hand in it.
THE largest importation of foreigners
that has been made by one steamer for
some time was landed at Castle Garden on
the 9Th by the French steamer Cher1ben
In all there were /, 19L The entire number
came from Italy, and it was said that they
were sent by agents in Naples, who had
been negotiating with several railroad and
steamship companies to furnish them with
1aborers to replace strikers
GEORGE G.. SICKLEs, father of General
Daniel E. Sickles, died in New York City
on the 9Th.
THRER hundred and twenty-five men have
struck at Feary's shoe factory at Albany,
n. Y, for an advance.
TESTS of the new eight-inch steel gun
made at the factory at West Point, n. Y,
have proved eminently satisfactory.
THE l5O grave diggers employed in Cal
vary Cemetery, Long Island, who are
knights of Labor decided to strike for an
advance of wages. 1t threatened to inter
fere with burfS.ls there.
FRANK c. BgDD, an absconding New
York broker, has been brought back from
Montreal